Add arrow to a line
skk
Global Mapper User
in Vector Data
I need to draw airways for which arrow needs to be added to decide the direction of the airway. I am drawing the airways by importing sequence of points. Unable to insert arrows to describe the direction. Each segment has a direction (forward or backward) based on which I need to draw the arrow. Any help....Connected to this, when i import line features between set of points, these lines are shown as straight lines. I need them to be great circles... what setting is required ? Thanks in anticipation.
Answers
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Hello,
https://www.bluemarblegeo.com/knowledgebase/global-mapper-18-2/feature_types/Built-in_Lines.html
Go to the bottom of this page. 4th and 5th up from the bottom is "Solid with Arrow Pointing to Start" and "Solid with Arrow Pointing to End". Is that what you need? Choose them from the "Select Line Style" dialog that says "Solid" by default.
Mark -
Ice Age Mark said:Hello,
https://www.bluemarblegeo.com/knowledgebase/global-mapper-18-2/feature_types/Built-in_Lines.html
Go to the bottom of this page. 4th and 5th up from the bottom is "Solid with Arrow Pointing to Start" and "Solid with Arrow Pointing to End". Is that what you need? Choose them from the "Select Line Style" dialog that says "Solid" by default.
Mark
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i have data in ASCII text file like as below
A N12/56/23.5 E078/34/11.2
B N13/06/43.8 E079/22/51.3 (FORWARD)
C N13/45/34.5 E080/17/22.6 (BACKWARD)
I have airways with thousands of strings (defined by two end fixes) each of which has predefined direction : forward or backward... Given this extra information can the line automatically insert arrow (forward or backward) by picking up this information between each pair of points.. can this be set as an attribute -
I don't see why "backward" or "forward" couldn't be used as an attribute. Then you could use a conditional function to assign either line type accordingly. It would take some clever scripting, but I think it would be do-able.
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So very grateful for the reply, Mark...
Though, not familiar with writing script, it would be a good opportunity to try hands on it to learn the basics and great if atleast this could be solved. Would help drastically in adding meaning (direction) to the worldwide airway network.
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